Advanced Mobile Broadband For Public Safety/Disaster Response Professionals ---

1. Advanced Mobile Broadband For Public Safety/Disaster Response Professionals --- www.projectmesa.org By David Thompson Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) Manager, Global Standards and Technology +1.202.383.1479 dthompson@tia.eia.org ----- www.tiaonline.org

2. International standardization partnership on mobile broadband technologies between TIA (N. America) and ETSI (Europe). Final Partnership Agreement for Project MESA ratified January, 2001 in the City of Mesa, AZ. • MESA = Mobility for Emergency and Safety Applications • Focusing initially on the advanced ”user” needs of the Public Protection (Safety) & Disaster Relief/Response sector (PPDR) • Police/Law Enforcement/Anti-terrorism, National and International • Advanced Surveillance and Security (Airports, Nuclear Power Plants etc) • Emergency and Medical Services (Telemedicine) • Advanced Firefighting • Civil Defense and Disaster Response, etc. • Aggressive technological goals to implement advanced digital services based on a very high bit-rate mobile platform. Requirements and services will be defined in the MESA Statement of Requirements (SoR).

3. MESA Statement of Requirements (SoR) • First such document to specifically involve direct user input within an international standardization partnership. • Intended to describe functional and technical specifications and standards platform. • Can be installed as either a private system owned by the government or a governmental/commercial partnership that provides priority service to PSDR agencies and possibly secondary service to other commercial clients. • Includes all criminal justice services, emergency management, emergency medical services (EMS), fire, land management, natural resource management, military, transportation (i.e., ITS), wildlife management, and other similar governmental functions that have a need for aeronautical and terrestrial, high-speed, broadband, digital, mobile wireless communications.

4. MESA Statement of Requirements (SoR) • Developed as part of a global effort to create uniform specifications and eventually a suite of open standards that could be used for the creation of the next generations of wireless equipment that will be needed to achieve the objectives of the PSDR community. Planning for the future, NOW! • SoR requirements are also intended to clearly chart a migration path from today's analog systems to the next generations of wireless, high-speed, digital transport system specifications and standards. • Involves ad-hoc, rapidly deployed, mobile broadband networks: • Specifically, the SoR involves the PSDR community's technological needs for the transport and distribution of rate-intensive data, high resolution digital video, infrared video and digital voice for both service-specific and general applications. • Emphasize transparent and seamless applications, including multiple levels of security and encryption; available on an individual or system-wide basis.

5. MESA Statement of Requirements (SoR) • It is about users driving technology, not technology (standards) driving users, and will leverage existing technology and systems to work with advanced ad hoc networks and equipment. • MESA technical groups and industry will utilize the SoR as a blueprint for future emergency communications standardization work that is Project MESA. • To view the latest SoR document, please go tohttp://www.projectmesa.org/ftp/SSG_SA/Drafts/SoRs(latest)/.

6. Users in the Drivers SeatThe unique MESA Sequence of processes: The 5S principle USERS REGULATORS INDUSTRY PARTNERS SoR Spectrum Specifications Standards Scenarios • Draft, approve and maintain national/ regional standards • R&D/Demos • Launch products in standardized, multi-vendor environment • User input & requirements • Build scenarios • Study them • Describe them • Maintain SoR • National/ Regional Spectrum assessment • Address applicable WRC-03 agenda items • Market assessment • Elaboration of technical specifications in MESA Technical Specification Groups (TSGs) • Core Network • Radio Access • Terminals

7. Some Key MESA Requirements: • Independency of public infrastructures and public supply of electrical power • Can be complementary to and interwork with wireline/other infrastructure components • Independency of public radio frequency spectrum • A reasonable tuning capability must be included in the key technology to accommodate regional requirements (For example: 4 GHz band (4.2 . 4.4 or 4.9). • Ultra fast deployment • Integral part of equipment deployed • Nationally/Internationally deployable • Globally agreed spectrum allocation(s) is goal • Auto establishing/self-healing/re-establishing wireless ad-hoc network elements • Wireless Switching to dedicated Global Broadband Infrastructures • E.g., Fiber optical and/or Broadband satellite constellations • Crypto transparent communication protocol hierarchy • System does not care about the content of the actual "payload" data, which can be encrypted exactly to the specification of the network owner. • From single site ”hot-spot” to ”street-level” services • MESA routers can be applied as part of a mobile rescue squad (hot spot) or fixed mounted to accommodate coverage along a street (mounted on lamp posts or on building walls.) • Large bandwidth requirements to facilitate broadband 2-way communications, data transfer, etc.

8. Fixed Ad-Hoc Network Network & terminal components automatically establish functioning network based on wireless nodes. MESA City

9. Airborne Control Mobile Ad-Hoc Network ” The Moving Hot-Spot” • Fast, deployable, compatible • Auto-est. network • Recognize terminals Backhaul Satcom Link The MESA Firefighter Telemedical Assistance

10. The MESA FireFighter The MESA Firefighter • Full Command Control and Communication (C3) to all MESA Firefighters • Online, real-time broadband interlinking • Infra-red as well as visible light video monitoring • Vital parameters surveillance

11. The MESA FireFighter Example of full on-site Command Control and Communication

12. Emergency and Medical Services (EMS)Remote Patient Monitoring Frontline Medical Assistance by Broadband Wireless Networking: Video on-line Electro Encephalographic data (EEG) Electro Cardiograph (ECG) Blood Pressure Temperature, etc. The bottom line… Bit-rates can save lives

13. Camera’s Calling • Automatic Recognition & Detection Capabilities: • -Sound • -Image • -Movement • -Material • -Radiation

14. Mobile Robotics • Automated inspection of non-accessible or hazardous areas • Rescue of people from hazardous areas • Anti-terrorist actions • Incident response both tactical and non-tactical • Urban warfare • Haz-Mat Handling • Airborne control

15. Broadband out there“the hotspot scenario” • Rural terrestrial SATCOM support • Megabit Up/Down links • Mobile Broadband Repeater • Remote Disasters • Evidence gathering • Real-time ID • Surveillance • Remote sensing

16. Coordination of CEPT input to WP 8A • Report on Mobile Broadband • FCC and NTIA addressing issues • FCC allocates parts of 700 MHz & 4.9 GHz Bands • NATO C3 Agency • Sharing Possibilities under evaluation Spectrum MattersWorldwide and Regional Activities • ITU-R WRC-2000 RESOLUTION [GT PLEN-2/5] Global harmonization of spectrum for public protection and disaster relief • High Data Rates - Video - Multimedia for cross-boarder operations • ITU - R WP 8A to study and prepare the matter for decision at WRC-03 (Agenda Item 1.3)

17. MOBILITY [m/sec] Aero- nautical MESA 2 G 2.5 G Vehicle - P 2 5 - T E T R A High Speed Wireless Access Advanced PS Digital 2-Way Standards Carrier Frequency Walk 3G Fixed Bit Rate [MBPS] 200 0.02 0.2 2 20 Wideband Broadband Narrowband • Advanced/future System • Not replacement for existing and evolving systems • MESA combines mobility up to aeronautical speeds with broadband data rates • Complements and meant to interwork with known/planned narrow to broadband wireless standards & projects around world (i.e. 2-3G) • Calls for a variety of advanced research (e.g., WWRF) • Recognized by entities like ITU, UN, NATO, FBI, NTIA, APCO, EU Commission, GSC/RaST (GTSC/GRSC), Industry Canada Bandwidth positioning of MESA

18. Spectrum MattersTrain Crash Scenario- a draft spectrum assessment example -Project MESA: User needs and scenarios drive spectrum requirementsbySteffen RingChairman Project MESA Steering Committeewww.projectmesa.orgPresentation available on Project MESA Website

19. Project MESA Structure T e c h n i c a l S p e c i f i c a t i o n s SDOs

20. PSPP: Project MESA OUTPUT: Harmonized/coordinated specifications, for Broadband Terrestrial Mobility and Satcom applications and services, driven by common scenarios, requirements and spectrum allocations. Common Requirements Specifications Common Technical Specifications …other Partners

21. Next Steps • Users have done first part of their homework (Draft SoR v.1 is here) • Users input will continue to be crucial (scenarios, additional requirements, v.2, etc.) • MESA Plenary #4, April 10-12, in the City of Mesa, AZ. U.S.A. • First version of SoR to be finalized/approved • SDOs to officially publish • Industry Members to take the first step in response to the SoR v.1 • Technical Committees to be chaired and staffed • Open discussions of spectrum and technologies • For more information on MESA or to register for the next meeting, visit http://www.projectmesa.org • To join Project MESA, visit http://www.projectmesa.org/IE/gen_info/join.htm • PS member, Individual member, Observer, Guest, Organizational Partner (Standards bodies) • Regional MESA Members to continue assisting regulators in preparation for the WRC-2003 • Promote MESA; further funding; continue to increase membership • MESA Plenary #5, September 25-27 2002, Copenhagen, Denmark

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